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CAC Games 2014 (Other Sports)
« on: August 26, 2014, 07:49:10 AM »
Games will be November 14-30, 2014 in Veracruz, Mexico

Thread for T&T athletes who will be competing in all sports except Track and Field and Football


 Here is the list of the full squad

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/Bovell-heads-TT--squad-to-CAC-Games-282509811.html
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Re: CAC Games 2014
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2014, 07:50:33 AM »

Dyette, Joseph seal CAC beach v-ball spot

 

 
Nigel Simon
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

T&T women’s beach volleyball pair, Nancy Joseph, left, and Ayanna Dyette embrace after securing a 12-21, 21-13, 15-13 win over Elki Phillip and Pauline Woodroffe in the two-team second-leg competition of Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games qualifiers at Saith Park, Chaguanas, Beach Volleyball Facility, on Sunday.

Top local women’s beach volleyball pair, Ayana Dyette and Nancy Joseph sealed a ticket to the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games scheduled for Mexico, in November when they won their best-of-two series against Elki Phillip and Pauline Woodroffe at Saith Park, Chaguanas, Beach Volleyball Facility, on Sunday.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/sport/2014-08-26/dyette-joseph-seal-cac-beach-v-ball-spot

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« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2014, 09:40:11 AM »
The games in November? So no US college athletes is this? I remember this use to be before the Commonwealth Games. It use to be the warm up for the CW. Vera Cruz should be nice. Is a resort city, I think. Sea level. No high altitude to contend with.
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« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2014, 09:07:07 PM »
The games in November? So no US college athletes is this? I remember this use to be before the Commonwealth Games. It use to be the warm up for the CW. Vera Cruz should be nice. Is a resort city, I think. Sea level. No high altitude to contend with.

Hmm good point. The last CAC games was held between 18 July to 1 August 2010.

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« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2014, 01:17:40 PM »

T&T tennis teams qualify for CAC Games



France-based Rheann Chung led Trinidad and Tobago’s-women’s table-tennis team to a semi-final spot at the Qualifying Event for the 22nd Central American and Caribbean Games which ends tomorrow in El Salvador.

However, T&T’s men were knocked out at the quarter-final stage by the home team El Salvador.
Nevertheless, both teams have qualified for the CAC Games to be held in Veracruz, Mexico from November 14-30.

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/TT-tennis-teams-qualify-for-CAC-Games-273349081.html

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« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2014, 03:04:04 PM »

Alexander to spearhead local boxers at CAC

 COMMONWEALTH GAMES middleweight bronze medallist Michael Alexander is among a group of amateur boxers which the Trinidad and Tobago Amateur Boxing Association (TTABA) have selected for the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC Games), to be held in Mexico in November.
Also included on the team to Mexico are: Andrew Fermin, Aaron Prince, Anthony Joseph and Stephen Charles. Welterweight Prince also participated at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where he reached the quarter-finals. The other boxers were all part of a recent local team training camp.

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/Alexander-to-spearhead-local-boxers-at-CAC-270557541.html

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« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2014, 08:09:59 PM »

Alaric, Linda make ‘CAC’ team


ALARIC HUMPHREYS and Linda Partap-Boodhan secured the final places on the Trinidad and Tobago table tennis teams for the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games Monday night at Central Regional Indoor Sports Arena, Chaguanas.

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/Alaric-Linda-make-CAC-team-275549521.html




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Re: CAC Games 2014 (Other Sports)
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2014, 10:05:23 AM »

CAC women whipped by Mexico

Story Created: Nov 17, 2014 at 2:42 AM ECT
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TRINIDAD and Tobago were beaten in straight sets when the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games Women’s Volleyball Tournament served off Saturday in Mexico.
In the final of four matches, the six-time Caribbean champions went under 25-17, 25-16, 25-15 against the Mexicans, who had also prevailed in straight sets when the two teams clashed in Trinidad in June for the 24th and final place in World Championships —contested in Italy from late September until last month.

Andrea Rangel and Seomara Sainz were the leading scorers with 12 points each, three more than T&T’s main contributor Channon Thompson, the Most Valuable Player when her team was crowned Caribbean champions for the fifth straight time in August.
T&T had 19 kills, but their opponents doubled that figure and were also completely dominant (6-1) in service winners in the 68-minute Group B encounter.

T&T tackled Puerto Rico yesterday and will conclude their campaign in the round-robin phase at 4 p.m. today against Costa Rica.
This country’s women defeated the Costa Ricans in straight sets during the World Championships playoff tournament four months ago, but may be the underdogs this time after the Costa Ricans stunned Puerto Rico 25-22, 13-25, 25-21, 12-25, 15-11 in the second match of this tournament on Saturday night.

Cuba cruised past Colombia 25-13, 25-17, 25-20 in the first, and in the other Group A encounter, Dominican Republic overwhelmed Venezuela 25-6, 25-15, 25-16.
The group winners will advance directly into Wednesday night’s semifinals, while the runners-up and third-placed teams will contest quarterfinals the night before.
The bronze medal match is scheduled for 7 p.m. next Thursday and the champions will be crowned two hours after.

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« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2014, 10:50:06 PM »
Chung advances at CAC
Women footballers in 1-1 draw with Haiti

RHEANN Chung made an impressive start in her bid to earn precious metal at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Veracruz, Mexico, when she notched up two consecutive victories as singles action in the table tennis competition served off at the Omega Complex, yesterday.

Chung faced the Dominican Republic’s Karla Britto in her first match and won in straight sets 11-5, 11-4, 11-7, before returning to dispose of Andrea Montufar of Guatemala, also in straight sets, 11-3, 11-8, 11-6. Her teammates Ashely Quashie and Catherine Spicer did not fare as well as Quashie suffered a straight set loss to Melanie Diaz of Puerto Rico, 5-11, 5-11, 2-11 and Spicer went under by a 1-3 margin to Venezuela’s Wimberly Montero, 5-11, 8-11, 11-8, 9-11.

In the men’s draw, Dexter St Louis was beaten 5-11, 6-11, 7-11, by Cuba’s Jorge Campo in his first match. But he would use his experience to rebound well in defeating 18-year-old Erick Aviles of El Salvador, three sets to one, 6-11, 11-3, 13-11, 11-1, to stay in the hunt.

Aaron Wilson drew Michael Hyatt of Jamaica and he won 3-2 (7-11;4-11;11-5; 11-9; 11-7), while Curtis Humphreys was waiting to play his first match against Guatemala’s Hector Gatica. First round action in the men’s and women’s doubles competition serves off today at 10.00 a.m.
Trinidad and Tobago’s national women’s football team opened its Group A campaign with a 1-1 draw against Haiti at the Hugo Sanchez Sport Complex. Fielding a team that saw several players who participated in the World Cup qualifying campaign being rested,
T&T would fall behind when Haitian defender Roselord Borgella beat goalkeeper Tinesha Palmer in the 27th minute. However, midfielder Patrice Campbell would find the back of the net in the 51st minute of play to ensure T&T took a share of the spoils.

Across in the pool, David Mcleod finished fourth in heat 2 of the men’s 100m backstroke in 59.12 seconds. Venezuela’s Albert Subirats topped the field in 57.14 with his countryman Robinson Molina second in 57.86 and Armando Barrera of Cuba, third in 57.93. Joshua McLeod fared a little better in finishing third in heat 3 of the men’s 50m butterfly in 24.47 seconds.

And in canoe competition, Satyam Maharaj was seventh in the men’s K1 200m final in a time of one minute, 00:99 seconds. Gold was won by Cuba’s Fidel Vargas in 40.658 with Antonoi Oropeza of Venezuela capturing silver in 45.790 and Mexico’s Santos Marroquin Uribe, bronze in 46.748.

Up to press time, T&T’s trio of Quincy Alexander, Jude Codrington and Kwesi Browne were set ride off against Edgar Verdugo, Reuben Horta and Roberto Serrano of Mexico in men’s team sprint cycling action at the Xalapa Velodrome.
And the national women’s hockey team had their previously scheduled 1 p.m. match delayed.

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/Chung-advances-at-CAC-283004231.html



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Re: CAC Games 2014 (Other Sports)
« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2014, 10:58:32 PM »

I think Roger Daniel secured a medal for T&T.. not sure

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Re: CAC Games 2014 (Other Sports)
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2014, 10:55:49 PM »

I think Roger Daniel secured a medal for T&T.. not sure

Rogel Daniel - Bronze in 10M Air Pistol
Kwesi Browne - Bronze in Track Cycling Men's Keirin
Dorian Alexander - Bronze in Taekwondo Under 68KG

Those are our 3 medals in the Games so far.

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« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2014, 07:42:12 AM »

I think Roger Daniel secured a medal for T&T.. not sure

Rogel Daniel - Bronze in 10M Air Pistol
Kwesi Browne - Bronze in Track Cycling Men's Keirin
Dorian Alexander - Bronze in Taekwondo Under 68KG

Those are our 3 medals in the Games so far.

 :beermug:  I hope we win Gold before the games done

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« Reply #12 on: November 19, 2014, 09:23:50 AM »



Roger Daniel claims T&T’s first CAC medal

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/Roger-Daniel-claims-TTs-first-CAC-medal-283153561.html

Shooter Roger Daniel earned Trinidad and Tobago’s first medal at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Veracruz, Mexico, when he picked up bronze in the men’s 10m air pistol final at the El Lencero Police Academy on Monday.

Daniel shot his way to 175.8 points to trail Cuba’s Jorge Grua (201.2) and Maurillo Morales of Mexico (196.8), who took gold and silver, respectively. The top three maintained their position from the qualifying round where Daniel amassed 570 points over six rounds to Morales’ 571 and Grua’s 573.

Meanwhile, swimmer Abraham McLeod gave himself a shot at a medal when he finished second in heat one of the men’s 50m breaststroke in a time of 28.92 seconds.

In table tennis action, T&T again had mixed fortunes. Curtis Humphreys rebounded from an opening round loss to Guatemala’s Hector Gatica to whip Miguel Sarmiento of Honduras, 11-2, 11-7, 11-9.

In doubles action yesterday, Humphreys and Dexter St Louis won their two matches comfortably. Humphreys would later team up with Quashie to capture their mixed double match against Simon Tomlinson and Yvonne Foster of Jamaica by a walkover. But they were beaten by Heber Moscoso and Analdy Lopez of Guatemala, 9-11, 11-8, 11-6, 11-9 in their second mixed doubles match.

T&T’s cycling trio of Quincy Alexander, Jude Codrington and Kwesi Browne narrowly missed out on medal slot in the men’s team sprint when they covered their three laps of the track at the Xalapa Velodrome in 45.957 seconds for fifth place.

In the men’s Keirin, Browne finished runner-up to Suriname’s Jair Tjon to grab the second automatic qualifying berth aEl Lencero Police Academy on Mondaynd advance to the final.

Codrington, who rode in Heat 2 and failed to finish made it to the repecharge, but did not face the starter.

T&T’s national men’s hockey team suffered a heart-breaking 3-2 loss to Cuba yesterday after getting past the Dominican Republic 4-3 on Sunday. Jordan Reynos put T&T ahead in the 14th minute and Shaquille Daniel made it 2-0 four minutes later to see them go in at the half holding the
advantage. However, three second-half goals within a five-minute span saw Cuba steal the win.

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« Reply #13 on: November 19, 2014, 05:01:25 PM »
It appears that Humphreys and St. Louis won a bronze in the doubles. Ping Pong!

http://info.veracruz2014.mx/info/eng/zz/engzz_noc_overview_trinidadamptobago.htm

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« Reply #14 on: November 19, 2014, 09:07:16 PM »
It appears that Humphreys and St. Louis won a bronze in the doubles. Ping Pong!

http://info.veracruz2014.mx/info/eng/zz/engzz_noc_overview_trinidadamptobago.htm



Congrats to them  :beermug: Athletes doing well

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« Reply #15 on: November 19, 2014, 09:08:18 PM »

CAC medal tally at 4

Browne, Alexander, St Louis, Humphreys cop more bronze for T&T
 
 Dorian Alexander fought his way to secure T&T’s second bronze medal, when he defeated Costa Rica’s Carlos Solis in the quarterfinals of the Men’s Under 68kg Taekwondo, at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Veracruz, Mexico.

Though he trailed 1-2 in the first round, Alexander took control over his Central American opponent from the next round by outscoring his opponent 5-1 before winning the third, 6-2, with several single point offensive kicks to Solis’s body. Solis actually did not score any points for the entire fight, only gain points off Alexander’s eight Kyong-gos (warning penalty, in Taekwondo two Kyong-go’s committed awards the opposition a point).
It was a different story for Alexander against Mexico’s Isaac Torres, scoring his only point of the fight in the first round. Torres executed two impressive back kicks as Alexander eventually lost 12-1. Torres went on to take silver, losing to Dominican Republic’s Ruddy Mateo 10-8 in the finals.

Meanwhile, cyclist Kwesi Browne added a third bronze to T&T’s medal tally when he copped third spot in the men’s Keirin late on Tuesday. Colombia’s Fabiano Hernando Puerta copped the gold while Hersony Canelon of Venezuela bagged silver.
Varun Maharajh topped the field in the men’s omnium scratch before going on to record a time of four minutes, 41.024 seconds for the fourth fastest time in the individual pursuit. He was carded to ride in the Elimination event at 8.00 p.m. while Emile Abraham was in the lineup for the men’s points race at 7.00 p.m.

And the table tennis pair of Dexter St Louis and Curtis Humphreys earned men’s doubles bronze after they were beaten 6-11, 7-11, 9-11, by Puerto Rico’s Brian Afanadour and Daniel Gonzalez in their semi-final matchup. The Puerto Ricans had to eventually settle for silver after they were defeated 12-10, 8-11, 6-11, 9-11, in the championship match by Marcos Madrid and Salvador Uribe of Mexico.
In women’s round of 16 singles action, Ashley Quashie bowed out to Puerto Rico’s Daniely Rios, 7-11, 5-11, 5-11, 6-11, while Rheann Chung won a tough five-set duel with Analdy Lopez of Guatemala by a 4-1 margin to progress to the final eight. Chung prevailed 12-10, 4-11, 11-6, 13-11, and 14-12.

In hockey action, T&T’s women had to settle for a 2-2 draw against the Dominican Republic (DR) after Blair Wynne had given them the lead in the sixth minute. Two goals in the eighth and 20th minutes by Benifer Moronta saw the DR forge ahead but Alanna Lewis hit back with a 31st minute strike to grab a share of the points for T&T.

And in the pool, George Bovell splashed into the final of the men’s 50m backstroke when he finished second in heat two in a time of 26.65 seconds with Venezuela’s Molina Robinson winning in 26.33. David McLeod, despite finishing fourth in heat one in 26.81, earned a lane in the final as he produced the sixth faster qualifying time.
The national women’s basketball team were beaten 86-36 by Cuba with Afeisha Noel, 10 and Patrice Edwards, nine, were T&T top scorers while at press time the women’s footballers were down by a 6-0 scoreline to Mexico.

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/CAC-medal-tally-at-4--283279661.html


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Re: CAC Games 2014 (Other Sports)
« Reply #16 on: November 19, 2014, 09:43:20 PM »
Five bronze medals now. Bovell won a bronze in the 50M Backstroke. Two Venezuelans finished ahead of him.

Tomorrow's events: women's 50M freestyle, hockey (vs. Guyana) and basketball (vs. Dominican Republic). Then men's team archery (vs. Guatemala), 50M freestyle, hockey (vs. Guatemala) and 100M backstroke.

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« Reply #17 on: November 20, 2014, 08:50:55 AM »
At halftime it is still 0-0 in the women's hockey match. They need to win by 4 goals to top their group. A draw will be enough to move on to the semifinals and a loss knocks them out of medal contention.

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« Reply #18 on: November 20, 2014, 10:30:07 AM »
It look like DR playing some serious hockey now. We used to to great at netball and hockey. Netball is struggling to remain relevant among our ladies. Hockey maybe in the same boat also.

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« Reply #19 on: November 20, 2014, 11:41:58 AM »
At halftime it is still 0-0 in the women's hockey match. They need to win by 4 goals to top their group. A draw will be enough to move on to the semifinals and a loss knocks them out of medal contention.

What is the final score?

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« Reply #20 on: November 20, 2014, 09:07:16 PM »
At halftime it is still 0-0 in the women's hockey match. They need to win by 4 goals to top their group. A draw will be enough to move on to the semifinals and a loss knocks them out of medal contention.

What is the final score?

It remained 0-0 so the women will play Cuba tomorrow in the semi-final. The men won 11-0 and will play hosts Mexico in a semi-final on Saturday.

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It look like DR playing some serious hockey now. We used to to great at netball and hockey. Netball is struggling to remain relevant among our ladies. Hockey maybe in the same boat also.

DR has invested in the game in 2 main ways: 1) hired an Argentine coach and 2) gave citizenship to a few Argentines (and I think Cubans as well) giving themselves an immediate boost. The men's hockey team is actually pretty good at the moment, while the women have some young promising players. It's not a big decline as yet.

Bovell with our first (and so far only) gold medal of the Games in the 50M freestyle.

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« Reply #21 on: November 21, 2014, 12:26:22 AM »
At halftime it is still 0-0 in the women's hockey match. They need to win by 4 goals to top their group. A draw will be enough to move on to the semifinals and a loss knocks them out of medal contention.

What is the final score?

It remained 0-0 so the women will play Cuba tomorrow in the semi-final. The men won 11-0 and will play hosts Mexico in a semi-final on Saturday.



Thanks, Good luck to both teams !

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« Reply #22 on: November 21, 2014, 12:30:35 AM »

Bovell with our first (and so far only) gold medal of the Games in the 50M freestyle.


CONGRATS TO BOVELL  :beermug:

Hopefully we see video of his race

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« Reply #23 on: November 21, 2014, 11:21:33 AM »
Allyuh might find me contrary, but I think we should be doing much better at this games. I honestly feel we should be doing much better in swimming. Congrats to GB, he always comes thru. But when he retires, what?

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« Reply #24 on: November 21, 2014, 01:57:18 PM »
Allyuh might find me contrary, but I think we should be doing much better at this games. I honestly feel we should be doing much better in swimming. Congrats to GB, he always comes thru. But when he retires, what?

So far we are underperforming but wait until the media reports we are doing great because we are winning medals  :(. T&T can do much better in all these sporting disciplines.
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« Reply #25 on: November 21, 2014, 02:06:20 PM »
Allyuh might find me contrary, but I think we should be doing much better at this games. I honestly feel we should be doing much better in swimming. Congrats to GB, he always comes thru. But when he retires, what?

So far we are underperforming but wait until the media reports we are doing great because we are winning medals  :(. T&T can do much better in all these sporting disciplines.

Non of the other foreign based male swimmers are at the meet as they are all at college invitationals. Had we had Blondell or Carter I would presume more medals would have been won and with our strongest 4 x 100 freestyle relay (Romany included), we may have given Venezuela all they could handle for the gold medal. Pan Am next year is showing much more promise where that relay is concerned.
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« Reply #26 on: November 21, 2014, 03:05:01 PM »
Are we under performing or is it that our athletes just aren't up to the level? I've often felt that we have an inflated opinion of our country's ability in sport. On the one hand this is probably the largest CAC Games team I've seen (larger even than the Jamaicans). On the other hand shouldn't we see better performances? I think there has been improvement in terms of athlete preparation and performance but we are still some way off of consistent elite level showings in these big games.

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« Reply #27 on: November 21, 2014, 04:19:44 PM »
The reason why I say this, is because the CAC is a 3rd tier games. Not being disrespectful. But at PanAm we have the US with their 2nd tier athletes who gobble up the medals. CWG. Aussie, NZ, Can, UK 4 nations are the impediments. Then Olimpics is a different issue altogether. This is the games where we should be preparing our athletes for the big events. I look at Cuba, 23 gold. Bahamas doing better than us at the moment.

But I was glad to see the women basketball team get a shot to participate. And some of the  so called minor sports like canoe, archery, etc get to rep. also.
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« Reply #28 on: November 21, 2014, 04:34:36 PM »
Well the women's hockey team lost 4-2 to Cuba in the semis. DR leading Mex 1-0 in the other semi. Also, TT women beat JA in basket-ball, 59-50.
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« Reply #29 on: November 22, 2014, 11:03:47 AM »


Bovell splashes to T&T’s first CAC gold

http://www.guardian.co.tt/sport/2014-11-22/bovell-splashes-tt’s-first-cac-gold

Just as he did eight years ago in Cartagena, Colombia, at the 20th edition, T&T swimmer George Bovell III secured this country’s first gold at the 22nd staging of the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games at Leyes de Reforma Aquatic Centre, Veracruz, Mexico, on Thursday night. Bovell sped home in 22.30 seconds, .07 hundredths of a second outside in 2010 record of 22.23 to turn the tables on his rival for gold well ahead of Suriname’s Renzo Tjon-A-Joe (22.62) and Cuban, Hanser Garcia (22.69).

He previously won gold at the 2006 CAC Games in Colombia in 22.67 while he set a new record enroute to gold in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico four years in 22.23. With the gold, Bovell improved T&T’s overall haul at the games thus far to six, one gold and five bronze. This after Bovell (50m backstroke), along with cyclist Kwesi Browne (keirin), shooter Roger Daniel (individual 10m Air Pistol), taekwondo’s Dorian Alexander (under 68 kg), men’s table-tennis doubles pair Curtis Humphreys and Dexter St Louis all previously got bronze. The other finishers in the final were Venezuelan Christian Quintero (22.82), Bermuda’s Roy-Allan Burch (23.10),  Mexican duo, Alejandro Escudero (23.27) and Daniel Ramirez (23.32) and Puerto Rico’s Erik Risolvato (23.51).

In the morning heats, Bovell touched the wall in a slow 23.42 seconds by his standards behind Tjon-A-Joe (22.98), Quintero (23.10) and Risolvato (23.34) while the two qualifiers from heat one were Garcia (23.06) and Escudero (23.33) and the duo of  Burch (23.23) and Ramirez (23.51). The T&T swimmer won his first medal of the on Wednesday, after he finished third, .01 hundredths of a second out of a silver medal  in the men’s 5om backstroke final in 25.91 seconds.

The winner was Albert Subirats of Venezuela who won in a new meet record of 25.72 while his countryman Robinson Molina got silver in 25.90, just ahead of Bovell. Subirats new mark erasing Colombian Omar Andres Pinzon 2010 record of 25.96 he set in beating Bovell to the wall. This time around, the Colombian had to settle for fourth in 26.04 followed by Cuban Amando Barrera (26.35),  Colombian Juan Pablo Botero (26.38), T&T’s David Mc Leod (26.87) and St Lucian, Jordan Augier (28.16).

In the morning heats, Bovell was second in heat two in 26.65 seconds to trail Molina (26.33) while Subirats won heat one in 26.42 with Colombian Juan Pablo Botero second in 26.67, Cuban Armando Barrera third in 26.74 and Mc Leod, fourth in 26.81.

Also on Thursday night, Cherelle Thompson also failed in her bid to medal for T&T in the women’s 50m freestyle when she finished 26.41 for sixth ahead of Bahamian Ariel Weech (26.48) and Mexico’s Maria Fernanda Gonzalez (26.52) Bahamian Arianna Vanderpool took gold in 25.24 followed by Puerto Rico’s Vanessa Garcia (25.63) and Mexico’s Liliana Ibanez (26.04) to complete the top-three. Aruban Allyson Ponson was fourth in 26.27 and Colombian, Isabella Arcilla, fifth in 26.38.

Thompson  booked a place in the final of the women’s 50m freestyle final following her fourth place showing in the second and final heat in 26.56 in morning session behind Bahamian favourite Arianna Vanderpool (25.38), Mexico’s Liliana Ebanez (26.00) and Colombian Isabella Arula (26.21). In the men’s 100m backstroke final, T&T’s David Mc Leod was eight in one minute, 00.18 seconds. Venezuelan Omar Pinzon won gold in 55.48, a new games record to erase the 1998 mark of Rodolfo Falcon of Puerto Rico who clocked 55.60.

Second was Venezuelan Albert Subirats in 55.68 while Cuban Armando Barrera got bronze in 56.54. Mc Leod had qualified as the fourth fastest in heat two in 59.12 behind Subirats (57.14), Molina (57.86) and Barrera (57.93). The Open Water 10k women’s swim also came off yesterday with Shania David (2:23.35) 16th and her sister, Syriah failing to complete the event. Today, it will be the turn of  Sachin Sankar and Christian Marsden to face the starter at Regatas Beach for the Men’s Open Water 10K swim.
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